Not really. City were in the fourth tier of English football, and were in very serious danger of getting relegated down to the fifth tier (i.e out of the Football League altogether).

We still have some way to fall to get to that level of 'rattling around'

It seems that Mark Lawn is a straight talker. That's good if he comes in with a realism. We might need someone to be upfront and tell us to forget about SL for three or four years, whilst the club is properly stabilised, all the debt cleared and everything built from the bottom.

Perhaps one of Green's failings (and, to be fair, he never claimed to be 'a rugby man') is that he allowed himself to get swept along with the whole 'This club deserves to be in Super League' mantra?

That's exactly how it was. The fact that he isn't a rugby man led him to hire James Lowes and the rest, as they say, is history.

Seeing as you seem to have assembled a decent squad what happens to the players contracts with you going into administration are they honoured can the administrators get rid of playrrs

RFL may pay the wages

Indeed. As I said, I could not see the issue "at that time" with Mr Green. That was two years ago.

Still, desperation having two year old quotes to bring up FA.

I struggle to see your point in all honesty.

It's not about what folk on here said is it?

I personally couldn't give a tiny toss what ME or FA said 4 years ago.

If you want to have that debate do it on another thread.

Depends.

First time around all stayed put initially as the admin thought it meant a better chance of getting a buyer I think.

It was similar second time around IIRC.

However it may not happen that way and players often slip through the net like Craig Kopout.

Gareth Carvell
Jarrod Sammut
Nick Scruton

I see the RFL now having a dilemma over the current situation. With the season starting 6 weeks after Xmas this administration must be done with fairly quickly as the RFL need to be sure they have clubs to fulfill fixtures. I would think sadly there may be a small chance of the RFL revoking the Bulls RFL membership if it is not sorted quickly and bringing a club up from League 1 (Barrow). Placing the Bulls in League 1 when and only when a takeover is finalised. The timing of this could go against the Bulls. Hope it doesn't but you have to admit this is faintly possible.

It's because you always turn up in times of crisis just to pompously claim how you "called it" etc., and here you are again. Well, you didn't call it, and you have no grounds at all to slag off RAB posters in relation to Green, yet you have done. Basically your post is weirdly blaming everyone on here for the Bulls' demise, and for not listening to you. As if there was anything anyone on here could have done to influence the events with Green. Deluded and boring.

Possible? On the contrary, I'll be amazed if we come out of the other side of this one in anything like our current version. Our concern on here is more whether we can survive at all, and has been for some months, and certainly since the criminal Featherstone debacle.